{"id":492449,"date":"2026-10-11T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492449\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:52:19","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-hit-and-run-collision-on-brundage-lane-driver-arrested-bakersfield-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492449\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in hit-and-run collision on Brundage Lane, driver arrested: Bakersfield PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A pedestrian was struck and killed late Friday night by an suspected hit-and-run driver in central Bakersfield, and police made an arrest shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The collision was reported in the area of the 900 block of Brundage Lane at around 10:20 p.m. The Bakersfield Police Department said a man was crossing the street in a crosswalk at South P Street, but against a red light. The driver &#8212; identified by police as Patience Ervin, 29 &#8212; was heading westbound on Brundage Lane when the collision happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man suffered severe injuries in the collision and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The man will be identified by the Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office at a later time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speed or impairment were not factors in the crash, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ervin was located and taken into custody about 30 minutes after the incident, officials told 17 News late Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ervin was arrested for hit-and-run resulting in death, according to arrest records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A pedestrian was struck and killed late Friday night by an suspected hit-and-run driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-492449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}